DirtArtful

Professional Development and Homesteading in an Ever Changing World

Main Menu

Skip to content
  • See Whats New!
  • Home Page
  • About Me
    • The Art
    • The Homebrewstead
  • Research
    • Mandy’s Curriculum Vitae
    • Publications and Grants
    • Awards and Honors
    • Professional Development
    • GIS Portfolio
  • GIS 520 Portfolio
    • About Me
    • Map Design Fundamentals
    • Geocoding Tabular Data
    • AutoCAD Integration
    • Database Cardinality Issues in ArcGIS
    • Working with US Census Data
    • Linear Referencing
    • Exploring Spatial Patterns in Your Data Using ArcGIS
    • Spatial Pattern Analysis
    • Using Raster Data for Site Selection
    • Suitability Analysis and Weighted Overlay
    • Image Classification
    • Customizing the ArcMap Interface
    • Course Reflection
  • Teaching Home
    • Teaching Statement
    • Teaching Artifacts
    • Teaching Experience
    • Student Feedback
    • Other Teaching Related Things
    • K-12 Outreach
      • Camp Experience
      • Video Tutorials

Category Archives: Agronomy

General Homestead Update

April 14, 2015by dirtartful Leave a comment

It has been pretty quiet on the homestead. There have been no new babies born since Saturday, even though Butters the guinea pig looks like she will pop any minute. […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Ducks, Eggs, Guinea Pigs, Homesteading, kale, Potatoes, Rabbits

Potatoes are In

April 4, 2015by dirtartful Leave a comment

I came across a site on how to grow 100 lbs of potatoes in a small amount of square footage. So, I got some 2x2s and 1x6s, and some red […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Garden, Potatoes, Soil

Soil Texture Teaching Kit

October 9, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

I do a lot of workshops with youth on weekends (including my Citizen Science programs). Most of these workshops involve teaching about the 12 different soil textures, which are made […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Citizen Science, Girl Scouts, Soil

Two crop failures….

September 11, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

So, this year has been an awful year for Downey mildew in NC. The sorghum failed because it stopped raining, and the pumpkins were a casualty of mildew. I planted […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Citizen Science, Pumpkins, Update

Pumpkin Problems

August 30, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

So many weeds, squash bugs are out, vine borers are out… So, apparently, a weekly neem application isn’t enough. I spent over an hour and a half weeding one plot… […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Citizen Science, Fungus, Insects, Problems, Pumpkins, Weeds

The Crazy Realities of Food Production

August 29, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

We are on the verge of starting a new citizen science program in Agronomy with the Girl Scouts. It will focus on local food and poverty, and how agriculture is […]

Read Article →
Agricultural Economics, Agronomy, Citizen Science, Poverty

Pumpkin are Flowering

August 23, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

This week, I got the results of the nutrient probes. Some of our pumpkin plants have flowers already. I have no idea that if this is normal or not… This […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Pumpkins, Soil, Soil Fertility

Pumpkin Heights and Fertilization

August 18, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

So, on Wednesday night, Bella and I went out to fertilize pumpkins and measure their heights. Some of the plants are over a foot tall, and others are only 3 […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Citizen Science, Girl Scouts, Pumpkins

Digging and Transplanting Pumpkins

August 9, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

So, each hole that I dug got two seeds in it. With the idea that after two full leaves have emerged, the second one gets pulled. Well, in the third […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Citizen Science, Pumpkins, Soil

Germinating Pumpkins!

July 29, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

Well… The awesome pictures that I got from the installation of PRS nutrient probes (more on these later) and nutrient sampling with my interns Karyn and Bella went into the […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Citizen Science, Guinea Pigs, Homesteading, PRS Probes, Pumpkins, Rabbits, Soil

Homesteading is Mocking Me

July 14, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

There has been a lot of upheaval on the homestead as of late… What with the buying of a house (long story, and no, I wasn’t breaking any city codes […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Guinea Pigs, Homesteading, Quail, Sorghum, Update

Spotty germination…

July 2, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

Well, in the lower portion of my plots, there is a distinct accumulation of moisture…. Since it has been so dry, this has really helped the germination rates in this […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Girl Scouts, Sorghum

Almost Ready to Plant

June 13, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

And Western Ag Innovations is providing us with a free sampling for fertility before planting occurs. The sweet sorghum is ready to go… And I am ready to plant. Grant […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Sorghum, Update

Groundbreaking!!!

June 4, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

After a several month delay due to health circumstances, the ground is finally broken on the Citizen Science Agronomy project.  The sweet sorghum crop is in my hand, and will […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Citizen Science, Cover Crop, Girl Scouts, Programs

Six Weeks of Crazy, and a Saturday to Forget

May 12, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

This week, I got my Sawzall and angle grinder, so I have been tearing up the pallets needed to construct the new quail and guinea pig cages! YAY! I also […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Chickens, Citizen Science, Construction, Eggs, Girl Scouts, Guinea Pigs, Homesteading, Incubation, Pallet, Programs, Quail

Week 3 on the Urban Farmstead…

April 21, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

I realize that last week, I didn’t do my weekly update until like, Thursday. I was sick. I am still sick now, but at least I am moving again! I […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Chickens, Guinea Pigs, Homesteading, Pallet, Quail, Spent Grain

Fall in Western Wisconsin: An artistic process

March 31, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

As spring dawns on the Southeast (FINALLY?!?), I find myself homesick for Wisconsin again. Today it was the region that I went to college (River Falls, GO FALCONS). The hills […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Art, Landscapes, Pastel

Tobacco on Mars

March 10, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

I am a total nerd and I am not ashamed of it. As a card carrying nerd (that grew into a soil scientist), I have always wanted to be the […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Landscapes, Pastel, Soil

Autumn Harvest in Wisconsin

February 17, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

Maybe all of the crappy, winter snowy and rainy weather is making me nostalgic for my favorite time of the year. This happens to be late summer and early fall. […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Landscapes, Pastel

Environmental Degradation: Drought

January 28, 2014by dirtartful Leave a comment

I am in the process of writing a cover letter and resume for a Girl Scout program director position. Needless to say, it is a long, harrowing process, and I […]

Read Article →
Agronomy, Environmental Degradation, Landscapes, Pastel, Soil

Post navigation

1 2 Next →

Topics

  • Advice (2)
  • Agility (10)
  • Agricultural Economics (2)
  • Agronomy (21)
  • American Blue (13)
  • American Chinchilla (30)
  • Art (17)
  • Bacteria (2)
  • Breeding (4)
  • Brewing (2)
  • Business (8)
  • Butcher (3)
  • Canning (1)
  • Cat (3)
  • Charcuterie (4)
  • Cheesemaking (3)
  • Chicken Tractor (7)
  • Chickens (31)
  • chukar (3)
  • Citizen Science (16)
  • Coloration (2)
  • Compost (4)
  • ComSciCon (3)
  • Construction (24)
  • Cost Analysis (6)
  • Cover Crop (3)
  • Cucumbers (1)
  • Culture (4)
  • Dirty Thursday (1)
  • Dog (13)
  • Ducks (23)
  • Eggs (33)
  • Environmental Degradation (1)
  • Farmers Market (1)
  • Feeding Trial (3)
  • First Aid (1)
  • Fodder (3)
  • Free Range (3)
  • Fungus (2)
  • Furs (3)
  • Garden (2)
  • Genetics (2)
  • Geo-spatial Analysis (1)
  • Geology (2)
  • Girl Scouts (29)
  • GIS Analytics (1)
  • Grow Beds (1)
  • Guinea Pigs (166)
  • Heat (5)
  • Herding (6)
  • heritage breed (6)
  • Homesteading (356)
  • Hydrology (1)
  • Incubation (23)
  • Insects (1)
  • Jewelry (9)
  • kale (2)
  • Khaki Campbell (3)
  • Landscapes (20)
  • Marketing (1)
  • Natures Oddities (3)
  • Off Grid (7)
  • Pallet (2)
  • Pastel (28)
  • Pasture (1)
  • Phesants (12)
  • Photos (1)
  • Platform Tent (4)
  • Policy (1)
  • Pond (1)
  • portrait (5)
  • Potatoes (2)
  • Poultry (2)
  • Poverty (1)
  • Problems (16)
  • Processing (5)
  • Professional Development (1)
  • Programs (20)
  • PRS Probes (1)
  • Pumpkins (6)
  • Quackquaponics (1)
  • Quail (36)
  • Rabbits (171)
  • Rain Garden (4)
  • Recipies (19)
  • rex (1)
  • sewing (1)
  • sheep (1)
  • Soil (28)
  • Soil Fertility (1)
  • Sorghum (3)
  • Sorting (1)
  • Spent Grain (7)
  • Storage (6)
  • Sustainability (4)
  • Tanning (3)
  • Teaching (1)
  • technology (3)
  • Turkey (2)
  • Uncategorized (24)
  • Update (39)
  • Weeds (1)

Instagram

No Instagram images were found.

What's the Skinny

Agility Agronomy American Blue American Chinchilla Art Business Chickens Chicken Tractor Citizen Science Construction Dog Ducks Eggs Girl Scouts Guinea Pigs Homesteading Incubation Jewelry Landscapes Pastel Phesants Problems Programs Quail Rabbits Recipies Soil Spent Grain Uncategorized Update

The Past

  • January 2017 (6)
  • December 2016 (1)
  • July 2016 (2)
  • June 2016 (3)
  • May 2016 (10)
  • April 2016 (12)
  • March 2016 (13)
  • February 2016 (14)
  • January 2016 (6)
  • December 2015 (12)
  • November 2015 (7)
  • October 2015 (6)
  • September 2015 (1)
  • August 2015 (10)
  • July 2015 (18)
  • June 2015 (25)
  • May 2015 (29)
  • April 2015 (29)
  • March 2015 (28)
  • February 2015 (15)
  • January 2015 (9)
  • December 2014 (18)
  • November 2014 (20)
  • October 2014 (20)
  • September 2014 (13)
  • August 2014 (27)
  • July 2014 (8)
  • June 2014 (19)
  • May 2014 (17)
  • April 2014 (13)
  • March 2014 (8)
  • February 2014 (7)
  • January 2014 (8)
  • November 2013 (1)
  • October 2013 (1)
  • September 2013 (3)
  • August 2013 (2)
  • July 2013 (17)
  • June 2013 (19)
  • May 2013 (8)
  • April 2013 (1)
  • March 2013 (3)
  • February 2013 (3)
  • January 2013 (5)

Clarjo Farms

Clarjo Farms
Follow DirtArtful on WordPress.com
Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • DirtArtful
    • Join 306 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • DirtArtful
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...